[jefflombardjr]

Can't upvote enough. It's easy to dismiss something you don't understand and wreck-less to assume you do. It's attitudes like these articles that led Planck to say, "Science progresses one funeral at a time"

If learning, math or otherwise, doesn't destroy your ego, you can do better. There is no shame in vocalizing uncertainty or a feeling of not understanding. Look at Stephen Hawkings - he had the courage to admit he was wrong and was one of his best critics.

Ego has no place in progress - scientific or otherwise.

[nurettin]

Right, and if bernoulli thought that "omg birds evolved a billion years, we can't simply model their wings to levitate a plane, look at those intricate feathers!" or the guy who first suggested CNNs thought "human brain! hundred million years of evolution from early primates! we can't simply use the neuron structure to create anything better, it's all over oh no!" we wouldn't simply be at the point we are standing today. On the shoulders of pretty smart people and their brave ideas.